Quotes about Death

“Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'”

“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”

“Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.”

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.”

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”

“As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.”

“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.”

“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

“Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.”

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”

“Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.”

“Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

“There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.”

“When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.”

“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”

“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”

“I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.”

“Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.”

“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”

“It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.”